Randy Kramer presented a talk, “Mobilizing Sustainable Finance for African Elephant Conservation,” at a workshop organized by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Nairobi, Kenya, last month. NSOE alumna Ivonne Higuero (MEM ’92), who is Secretary General of CITES, chaired the workshop. Randy’s talk summarized key findings of a report he’s prepared to help inform discussions on conservation finance at the 2022 CITES Conference of the Parties being held this week and next in Panama.
An interdisciplinary research team recently launched an NIH-supported project aimed at investigating infectious diseases at the human-animal interface in Northeastern Madagascar. The team will model disease transmission within and across small mammals (rats, bats, and tenrecs), domesticated mammals (cats, cows, pigs, and dogs), and humans by screening humans and animals for a wide range of diseases, undertaking rigorous surveys of people and their environments, and conducting sophisticated mathematical modeling to represent connections between humans and animals in a network framework.
Three former Nicholas School of the Environment students have turned the findings of their 2016 Master’s Project, on regional differences in what motivates homeowners to implement energy-efficiency upgrades, into their first journal publication. Master of Environmental Management graduates Jennifer Cole, Jessica McDonald and Xinyan Wen used their group project to write a peer-reviewed paper, “Marketing energy efficiency: perceived benefits and barriers to home energy efficiency,” that was published in the journal Energy Efficiency. Their project advisor was Randy Kramer. 
Randy Kramer highlights the importance of a two-prong approach of prevention and treatment in fighting malaria and the need for global coordination between organizations to eradicate the disease.
